NGOs such as B’Tselem, Adalah, and Breaking the Silence receive massive amounts of funding from foreign governments, claiming to promote a human rights agenda in Israel. In reality, these groups focus on delegitimizing and demonizing Israel before international audiences, seeking to generate external pressure outside of Israel’s democratic framework.
After a year of denials and equivocating on the funding relationship between NIF and CWP, NIF issued a statement that We have asked CWP to remove our name and funding direction from their website.
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Breaking the Silence uses European government funding to make sweeping accusations based on anecdotal, anonymous, and unverifiable accounts of low-level soldiers.
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Israeli NGO BTselem received a donation from Bubbes and Zaydes for Peace, a Philadelphia-based group that supports the BDS movement and hung BOYCOTT ISRAELI APARTHEID! signs on major Philadelphia highways.
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On September 19, 2010, NIF published new funding guidelines on its website. For the first time, the organization declared that groups that violate core principles, including working "to deny the right of the Jewish people to sovereign self-determination within Israel." However, since the initial report, a number of NIF officials have made confusing and contradictory public statements, suggesting that the guidelines are not new, and that they will not be implemented to reverse the anti-Israel NGO activities resulting from NIFs funding policies. In addition, no timetable or implementation mechanism have been published.
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ACRIs report is based almost exclusively on Palestinian testimony. None of the claims can be verified independently, and the testimony is clearly designed to promote the desired political conclusions.The publication is entirely one-sided and reinforces the artificial image and ideology of Palestinian victimization. The surprising use of the phrase Judaize erases the intense Jewish historical connection to Jerusalem and suggests that the very presence of Jews is alien and unacceptable.
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